Författarröster del 7: Nadine Gordimer

På torsdag börjar årets upplaga av Bok- och Biblioteksmässan i Göteborg. Tema för i år är Afrika och en av mässans gäster är den sydafrikanska författaren och Nobelpristagaren Nadine Gordimer. Därför tillägnas denna upplaga av Författarröster åt just henne.

Här pratar Nadine Gordimer om rasism och sin uppväxt i Sydafrika under apartheid.

Nadine Gordimer deltar i en diskussion under Prague Writers Festival.

Här läser hon sin novell Loot.

Här läser hon sin novell The Generation Gap.

I en inspelning från 1961 får vi höra Nadine Gordimer läsa två av sina berättelser.

Sture Allén tillkännager att Nadine Gordimer har tilldelats Nobelpriset i litteratur.

Dagens citat: "Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area." (Nadine Gordimer i en intervju med The Paris Review.)

"When the six-year-old daughter of a friend of mine overheard her father telling someone that I had been awarded the Nobel Prize, she asked whether I had ever received it before. He replied that the Prize was something you could get only once. Whereupon the small girl thought a moment: 'Oh' she said, 'so it's like chicken-pox.'" (Nadine Gordimer i sitt tal på Nobelbanketten 1991.)

"The writer is of service to humankind only insofar as the writer uses the word even against his or her own loyalties, trusts the state of being, as it is revealed, to hold somewhere in its complexity filaments of the cord of truth, able to be bound together, here and there, in art: trusts the state of being to yield somewhere fragmentary phrases of truth, which is the final word of words, never changed by our stumbling efforts to spell it out and write it down, never changed by lies, by semantic sophistry, by the dirtying of the word for the purposes of racism, sexism, prejudice, domination, the glorification of destruction, the curses and the praise-songs." (Nadine Gordimer i sin Nobelföreläsning.)